"That evening two scalps were brought into camp," so a letter of his reads.

Does the bold savage color of this picture affright us?
Would we veil it?
Then we should lose something of the true lineaments of George Rogers Clark, who, within four short years, was to lead a tiny army of tattered and starving backwoodsmen, ashamed to quail where he never flinched, through barrens and icy floods to the conquest of Illinois for the United States.
Though Cresap had rejected the role of "white leader," he did not escape the touch of infamy.

"Cresap's War" was the name the Indians gave to the bloody encounters between small parties of whites and Indians, which followed on that war dance and scalping, during the summer months.

One of these encounters must be detailed here because history has assigned it as the immediate cause of Dunmore's War.
Greathouse, Sapperton, and King, three traders who had a post on Yellow Creek, a tributary of the Ohio fifty miles below Pittsburgh, invited several Indians from across the stream to come and drink with them and their friends.

Among the Indians were two or three men of importance in the Mingo tribe.